Fusion Patrol

Jan 31 2025 300 ep. 56 mins 183

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Each week, we look at one episode of a classic (or not-so-classic) science fiction TV series and discuss it. Come join the conversation.

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721 – Star Maidens – The Perfect Couple – What Have They Done to the Rain?

Jan 31 2025 44 mins

John and Eugene look at two more episodes of Star Maidens. In The Perfect Couple, they find out what happens when bored surburan housewives get a load of the boys from Medusa, and in What Have the Done to the Rain? they ponder how stupid Rudy can be while at the same time being really ... Read more

720 – Baffled!

Jan 24 2025 63 mins

This week, Ben and Eugene look at the 1972 British-American pilot movie Baffled!, a supernatural thriller starring Leonard Nimoy.

719 – Real Humans – Make Haste

Jan 17 2025 78 mins

This week, Simon and Eugene tackle Episode 8 of Real Humans: Make Haste. They discuss Hubots in Love, Hubot Humor, and Hubot Voltage Standards.

718 – Space Above and Beyond – And If they Lay Us Down to Rest… & …Tell Our Moms We Done Our Best

Jan 10 2025 99 mins

Our coverage of Space: Above and Beyond concludes as Kenneth and Eugene discuss the final two-part season finale (and, as history records, also the series finale) episodes, “And If They Lay Us Down to Rest…” and “…Tell Ours Moms We Done Our Best.” They discuss this week’s court-martial-able offenses, things that might have been if ... Read more

717 – Star Maidens – The Trial & Test for Love

Jan 03 2025 40 mins

This week, John and Eugene look at two more episodes of Star Maidens, The Trial, and Test for Love. They marvel at everyone’s utter in these episodes.

716 – Doctor Who – Joy to the World

Dec 27 2024 77 mins

This week, Simon and Eugene look at the 2024 Doctor Who Christmas special, Joy to the World, where they discuss whether Christmas episodes can break all the show’s usual rules, whether the TARDIS jukebox will be replaced by a chair, and how Doctor Who should treat the politics of the COVID lockdown rules.

715 – Real Humans – Blind Love

Dec 20 2024 58 mins

Simon and Eugene look at the Real Humans episode, Blind Love. They discuss legal statutes in alternative universe Sweden, constructive dismissal by Hubot, and whether the video site glimpsed in this episode is an alternate Swedish version of YouTube because they didn’t dare to google whether Bigtubes is a real site.

714 – Space Above and Beyond – Sugar Dirt

Dec 13 2024 44 mins

This week, Kenneth and Eugene look at Season 1, Episode 21 of Space Above and Beyond, entitled Sugar Dirt. They look at bad historical analogies, check in on this week’s contestant on Wheel of Court Martial and ask the question, “What has the 58th been eating for three months?”

713 – Star Maidens – The Proton Storm & Kidnap

Dec 06 2024 40 mins

Want to know what a proton storm is, or how big it is? You won’t find out by watching the Star Maidens episode The Proton Storm, but you might by listening to John and Eugene discuss the episode. For the double the fun, they then turn their eye towards the episode Kidnap.

712 – The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension

Nov 29 2024 43 mins

John (suspicious name) and Eugene discuss that most 80’s of 1980’s cult films: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension.